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v493Current
  • Bug fixImproved deployment reliability while preserving the existing manuscript and corpus behavior.
v487–v492
  • Bug fixRepaired Gaster Hebrew MS 710 so every Esther verse highlights in true scroll order, including the overlapping photographs and Haman's sons layout. Rebuilt Gaster Hebrew MS 711 highlighting from reviewed full-resolution text columns and withheld polygons wherever the writing is erased or unreadable. Kept Gaster Hebrew MS 711’s erased middle sections navigable while explicitly preventing false verse highlights there. Repaired Gaster Hebrew MS Add 1 so every Hebrew and Targum occurrence is visible and highlights stay within their reviewed text blocks. Rebuilt Rylands Genizah 32 highlighting from complete-image strip review, preserving the lost recto passage and making all 30 surviving Psalm locations visible. Repaired Manchester Rylands Genizah 2 so all twelve Jeremiah locations now highlight one coherent two-column reading sequence. Clarified that Rylands Genizah 2's twelve verse highlights are bounded review estimates rather than direct OCR matches. Corrected the Hebrew and Saadia Tafsir highlights on Penn CAJS RAR MS 85.126.13a so every retained word follows the manuscript's alternating text order. Rebuilt Penn CAJS RAR MS 85.126.23 so its Hebrew lead-words and Judeo-Arabic spans follow the complete physical text stream. Rebuilt Penn CAJS Halper 22 and restored both selectable physical parts of 2 Kings 5:11 across the page turn. Rebuilt Penn CAJS Halper 25 and restored both selectable physical parts of Zechariah 14:6 across the page turn. Rebuilt Penn CAJS Halper 46 around its ten surviving Hebrew cues and the complete physical Saadia stream.
  • ManuscriptsRebuilt Gaster Hebrew MS Add 19b so every Song of Songs verse has a coherent highlight across the four scroll photographs. Repaired Halper 12a word geometry and its Hebrew–Onkelos page-turn boundaries, including the surviving single-layer endpoints. Rebuilt Manchester Hebrew MS 38 so every accepted word and all 625 physical Psalm occurrences follow its reviewed 12-line page geometry. Rebuilt Rylands Genizah A 59 so all catalogue-bounded Psalm locations are visible while preserving the leaf’s holes and detached material. Manchester Rylands Genizah 1 now follows its reviewed poetic row order with word-bounded highlights and no invented geometry across damaged text.
v477–v486
  • Bug fixPreserved every manuscript route, description, filter, and visibility setting while making catalogue records independently pluggable. Hardened manuscript browsing, search, and comparison against future platform changes. Rebuilt BL Or. 1467 in its word-derived two-column layout, restoring every Hebrew highlight and improving the independent Hebrew and Onkelos geometry across all 257 photographs. Rebuilt Bodley Or. 803’s Hebrew and Onkelos highlights so every mapped Hebrew verse is visible while its exceptional page layouts remain intact. Rebuilt Gaster Hebrew MS Add 17 highlights from all eight text photographs, including the reviewed physical order of the Haman's-sons display. Rebuilt Gaster Hebrew MS Add 18 highlights from all seven text photographs and corrected the physical order of the Haman's-sons display. Rebuilt Gaster Hebrew MS Add 21 highlights from all eight photographs, corrected the Haman's-sons display, and preserved its burned ending without speculative boxes. Restored every Hebrew highlight in Gaster Hebrew MS 2033 while preserving its independent Torah layers, alternating Hebrew-Jonathan haftarot, and displaced Deuteronomy leaves. Restored every Hebrew highlight in Gaster Hebrew MS 322 while preserving its independent Hebrew, Onkelos, and Saadia geometry and the documented missing-folio gap. Restored every Hebrew highlight in Gaster Hebrew MS 323 while preserving its independent Hebrew, Onkelos, and Saadia geometry and reviewed Song of Moses layout. Remapped all 194 surfaces of Gaster Hebrew MS 731 from retained text evidence, restoring every Hebrew highlight while preserving separate low-confidence flags and independent Targum geometry. Recorded the severely burned final Gaster Add 21 photograph as a reviewed unindexable biblical surface, preserving physical navigation without inventing a highlight. Rebuilt Hebrew MS 10 highlights from all eight photographs and corrected the physical order of the Haman's-sons display. Rebuilt Hebrew MS 2 highlights from all seven photographs and removed out-of-order boundary fragments around its Haman's-sons display. Rebuilt Hebrew MS 41 highlights from all ten photographs and corrected the reading order around its Haman's-sons display. Rebuilt Hebrew MS 61 highlights, corrected its final photographed spans, and removed a zero-width OCR artifact. Rebuilt Manchester Hebrew MS 3 highlights across both scribal hands, with reviewed Haman-display and closing-column geometry and honest page-specific confidence. Recorded Hebrew MS 3’s darker second-hand photograph as a reviewed unindexable biblical surface, preserving physical navigation without presenting unsupported highlights. Rebuilt Manchester Hebrew MS 40 highlights from all seven text photographs and corrected the Haman's-sons display geometry. Rebuilt Marshall Or. 51 across all 483 digitized surfaces with independent Hebrew and Onkelos highlights, exact marginal biblical occurrences, corrected Deuteronomy routing, and complete physical navigation. Rebuilt Rylands Genizah 1 highlights in the manuscript's poetic row order, with word-level evidence and no invented geometry for unreadable opening verses. Kept Marshall Or. 51’s two illustrated Temple-plan surfaces in physical navigation without treating them as biblical text. Restored the selectable Targum Onkelos layer for Marshall Or. 51 in manuscript and comparison views. Rebuilt all 689 BL Add MS 9400 surfaces so every accepted text word is accounted for once, multilingual blocks retain their physical order, and implausible verse packing is rejected. Rebuilt Bodley Or. 803 in physical Hebrew–Onkelos reading order, preventing repeated words from scattering one verse across distant columns. Prevented split or repeated OCR lines from scattering one verse across unrelated parts of a page. Rebuilt Manchester Hebrew MS 43 highlighting so every Esther verse is selectable and the Haman's-sons display follows the manuscript's physical order. Rebuilt Manchester Hebrew MS 20 highlighting for every Esther verse and corrected both photographed split-verse joins, including the Haman's-sons display. Rebuilt Manchester Hebrew MS 22 highlighting for every Esther occurrence and mapped the Haman's-sons display in its actual two-part reading order. Rebuilt Manchester Hebrew MS 44 highlighting for every surviving Esther occurrence, separated the repeated words in the Haman's-sons display, and restored the true split of Esther 9:10 across adjoining views. Rebuilt Bodley Or. 699 highlighting as complete page-by-page text streams, eliminating scattered repeated-word matches and withholding 49 unsupported edge routes. Restored precise highlighting for Genesis 50:25–26 in Rylands Samaritan MS 4 and removed unsupported verse locations from its damaged opening. Rebuilt Manchester Samaritan MS 6 highlighting from exact catalogue page boundaries and complete text-block ownership, eliminating scattered matches across all 62 biblical pages. Kept Bodley Or. 699 fol. 33v in physical navigation without assigning it an unsupported biblical highlight. Rebuilt Rylands Genizah A 59’s verso highlights in true reading order and replaced scattered recto matches with two explicitly estimated page-edge locations.
  • UI improvementMade the latest release notes concise and readable.
  • New featureEstablished a rights-aware, reviewable interchange foundation for future Textia witness packages. Added selectable Targum Onkelos with independent word-level highlights throughout the Torah in British Library Add MS 9400.
  • ManuscriptsRebuilt the highlights for Manchester Hebrew MSS 4 and 54 from complete images, including the full-scroll composite and split Esther 9:10.
v467–v476
  • Bug fixVerified and preserved verse lookup, repeated and layered readings, image regions, and complete physical navigation across the manuscript catalogue; corrected isolated navigation and manuscript-identity errors found during review.
  • New featureAdded a bilingual Browse manuscripts catalogue with combined search and scholarly filters for tradition, date, provenance, Masorah, and Babylonian vocalization and cantillation.
v460–v466
  • ManuscriptsRebuilt the complete word-level HTR for Bodley Or. 803 and BL Or. 1473, with independent Hebrew and Targum geometry across every digitized surface. Repaired the complete HTR for Gaster Hebrew MS 322 and 323, with independent word-level Hebrew, Targum Onkelos, and Saadia Tafsir layers in manuscript and synoptic views. Rebuilt the complete HTR for Kennicott 3 and BL Or. 2363 across all 872 photographs, with separately audited Hebrew and Targum Onkelos word geometry.
  • New featureAdded selectable Targum Onkelos for Bodley Or. 803 and Targum Jonathan for BL Or. 1473 in manuscript and synoptic views. Centralized manuscript identifiers in an audited catalog so future text-family adapters can register witnesses consistently. Made Targum Onkelos selectable for both witnesses in individual-manuscript and synoptic views without duplicating manuscript cards or surface data. Made manuscript page routing safer to extend across text families without changing current locations.
  • Bug fixCompacted the new Gaster Hebrew MS 322 and 323 layer indexes to prevent Worker startup failures while preserving their independent Hebrew, Onkelos, and Saadia mappings. Improved the reliability of BL Or. 1473 Hebrew and Targum page navigation while preserving its current locations and complete physical sequence. Hardened BL Or. 1473's complete 357-page physical sequence while preserving every Hebrew and Targum location. Repaired the complete word-level HTR for Gaster Hebrew MSS 2033 and 2034, with separately selectable Hebrew, Targum Onkelos or Jonathan, and Saadia Judeo-Arabic layers wherever each version survives. Rebuilt all 428 surfaces of Bodleian MS. Pococke 285 with complete word-level HTR and separately selectable Hebrew and Saadia Judeo-Arabic geometry in manuscript and synoptic views. Moved BL Or. 2373 page and physical-order routing behind the safer manuscript registry with identical results. Moved BL Or. 4445 page and physical-order routing into the audited manuscript registry with unchanged locations and highlights. Moved BL Or. 9879 page and physical-order routing into the audited manuscript registry with identical results. Moved BL Or. 9880 page and physical-order routing into the audited manuscript registry with identical results. Moved Halper 19 routing into the audited manuscript registry while preserving its exact page results and lazy loading. Moved Halper 2 routing into the audited manuscript registry with unchanged verse and physical-page results. Moved Halper 4 routing into the audited manuscript registry with unchanged verse and physical-page results. Moved Halper 5 and its alternate verse occurrences into the audited manuscript registry with identical results. Moved Halper 6 and its split-verse occurrence routing into the audited manuscript registry with identical results.
v452–v459
  • ManuscriptsAdded four reviewed Austrian National Library fragments—P.Vindob. H 11, H 14, H 133, and H 143—with complete HTR and indexing.
  • UI improvementShortened Hebrew source labels and gave Judeo-Arabic text matching Semitic typography. Simplified the version-history heading by removing its redundant summary sentence.
  • Bug fixStrengthened release checks for duplicate views in the Austrian National Library manuscripts. Corrected the P.Vindob. H 14 Job page ranges and improved its word-level highlights, including verses that share a line. Hardened Berlin 680 verse and page routing with fixed regression fingerprints while preserving every current result. Rebuilt all 114 surfaces of Gaster Hebrew MS Add. 1 and added separate selectable Hebrew and Targum-to-the-Writings word geometry in manuscript and synoptic views. Rebuilt the complete HTR for Gaster Hebrew MS 731 and British Library Or. 1467, separating their Hebrew and Targum text into independently selectable word-level geometry in manuscript and synoptic views.
  • New featureMade version history release-driven: every publishable update now contributes a bilingual note, same-day releases accumulate, and the next active day consolidates the prior day automatically. Prepared manuscript navigation for additional text families while preserving the Berlin manuscript’s existing page results.
v440–v451
  • ManuscriptsAdded Penn CAJS RAR MS 82.258.115, British Library Or. 2365 and Or. 2696, and five short Genizah fragments with multilingual HTR.
  • New featureAdded verse-specific manuscript sharing cards, expanded the About page, streamlined manuscript validation, and advanced the evidence-first Codex Sassoon HTR pilot.
  • UI improvementImproved mobile reference controls, comparison ordering and progressive loading, the default Genesis view, and new-manuscript badges.
  • Bug fixRepaired multilingual HTR for Halper 12a, Gaster 2031, and Reggio 60; prevented whole-corpus rendering exhaustion; and stabilized comparison loading, reference selection, and transient reference-text retries.
v437–v439
  • New featureAdded passage-level Targum tradition choices and a manuscript-based Deuterocanon guide; comparisons now retain every selected tradition.
  • UI improvementImproved responsive tradition controls, Hebrew citations and reference lookup, comparison headings, and the Aleppo Hebrew and Aramaic font.
  • Bug fixRepaired HTR verse geometry, Rösel Targum highlights, Greek rendering, and synoptic tradition navigation.
v434–v436
  • ManuscriptsAdded the Rösel Bible and Library of Congress Targums, including deuterocanonical indexing.
  • Bug fixFixed supplemental-work release regressions, synoptic full-page navigation, HTR sequence logic, and large-witness permalink reliability.
v432–v433
  • Bug fixAudited and repaired Kraken HTR across the corpus, including geometry boundaries and Gaster 731 coverage safeguards.
  • UI improvementMade Special pages count badges responsive on smaller screens.
v426–v431
  • ManuscriptsAdded British Library Harley 1861 and 1528, Add MS 15250 and 15252, Bodleian Canonici Or. 87, and Cambridge Add. 1753.
  • UI improvementGrouped mapped scope into readable ranges, separated citations, and rewrote attribution and workflow credits.
  • Bug fixRepaired Cambridge verse occurrences and strengthened sequence-aware HTR mapping.
v423–v425
  • ManuscriptsAdded BL Add MS 9405–9406, 10455 and 15282, Arch. Selden A. sup. 106, Huntington 234, Harley 5709 and 5715, Oppenheim 14, and Utopia cod. 6.
  • UI improvementMoved mobile transcriptions below scans and fixed the mobile Masorah layout.
v411–v422
  • ManuscriptsAdded Arch. Selden A. 47 and Bodleian Canonici Or. 138, Canon. Or. 91, and Canonici Or. 84.
  • New featureAdded the bilingual About page and the visible release number in the masthead.
  • UI improvementSimplified the About page, improved the sharing card, and adopted MAM in synoptic comparisons.
v410
  • ManuscriptsAdded Bodleian MS Oppenheim 13.
v397–v409
  • ManuscriptsAdded Harley 5506, 5706, 5683, 5710 and 5711; Bodmer 21; BL Add MS 21160; the Cervera Bible; the First Ibn Merwas Bible; and a c. 1300 Spanish Hebrew Bible.
  • UI improvementReplaced synoptic source links with a clearer full-page action.
v378–v396
  • ManuscriptsAdded 16 witnesses from the British Library, CAJS and BLB, including Cod. Reuchlin 10, Add MS 9401–9402, 14760, 4708, 9403, 15451, 26879, 9398, 9399 and 9400, plus Halper 10, 12a, 17 and 30 and a Lamentations Genizah leaf.
v351–v377
  • ManuscriptsAdded 17 CAJS Halper witnesses, BL Add MS 21161, Arundel Or. 2, Genève BGE Ms. heb. 3, Rendel Harris 1, NLI Ms. Heb. 4°7463, and Complutense BH MSS 1.
  • New featureAdded BIMA citations directly to manuscript pages.
  • UI improvementFixed the mobile Explore text layout.
v334–v350
  • ManuscriptsAdded British Library Or. 2542, 1473, 9880, 2543, 1467 and 2363; BLB Cod. Reuchlin 3; and CAJS Halper 5, 8, 9, 14, 15 and 18.
  • UI improvementMade drawer passages flash visibly and adopted MAM for non-Greek witnesses.
  • Bug fixFixed fading highlights and the combined manuscript count.
v311–v333
  • ManuscriptsAdded Rylands Greek P 458, British Library Or. 4445, 2540, 2091 and 9879, CAJS Halper 19, 2 and 4, the Damascus Pentateuch, and Erfurt Bible 3.
  • New featureAdded collapsed manuscript-search facets, reverse exploration from scan highlights, and BIMA zoom for Or. 2091.
  • UI improvementKept BIMA tabs on one row and Explore text scrolling inside its sidebar.
v281–v310
  • ManuscriptsAdded Canonici Or. 137, Reggio 60, Pococke 285, Marshall Or. 1, Canon. Or. 136 and 55, Rylands Genizah 1, 2, 32 and A 59, and Munich Cod. hebr. 2.
  • New featureIntroduced Special pages, manuscript-feature exploration, page and repository citations, citation copy formats, a Genizah filter, and the persistent manuscript intake queue.
  • Bug fixFixed Special pages history, navigation and thumbnails and BIMA Masorah highlights.
v277–v280
  • ManuscriptsAdded full Kraken editions of Laud Or. 324 and Bodley Or. 3.
  • UI improvementRefined citation guidance.
v259–v276
  • ManuscriptsAdded 18 Manchester Hebrew and Gaster witnesses, including five Esther scrolls and fully indexed Hebrew MS 4 and MS 11.
  • New featureAdded bilingual citation guidance.
v245–v258
  • ManuscriptsAdded Manchester Hebrew MS 36, Samaritan MS 6 and Gaster Samaritan MS 1858; Bodleian Canonici Or. 37–40; and Gaster Hebrew Add 13, Add 1, 710 and 711.
  • New featureIntroduced time-limited NEW manuscript badges.
  • Bug fixFixed badge centring and masthead stacking across browsers.
v239–v244
  • ManuscriptsAdded British Library Or. 2373 and completed full-line Alexandrinus HTR.
  • Bug fixStabilized Alexandrinus memory use and cleaned up stale corpus data.
v234–v238
  • ManuscriptsAdded Bodleian Huntington 227, Huntington 367 and Oppenheim 34 with full Kraken indexing.
  • New featurePublished the Alexandrinus full-line HTR checkpoint and kept commentary-only Oppenheim material out of the public viewer.
v204–v233
  • ManuscriptsAdded Manchester Hebrew MS 25 and 38; Gaster 2043, 673, 731, 2033, 2034, 322 and 323; the Berlin Babylonian-cantillation manuscript; and Codex Babylonicus.
  • New featureAdded synoptic filter presets and verse navigation, a manuscript page picker, automatic manuscript counts, availability in reference menus, and approximate Greek verse locations.
  • Bug fixCorrected Aleppo pagination and reconstruction evidence, Berlin Hebrew text and HTR, and Babylonicus multi-line highlights.
v163–v203
  • ManuscriptsAdded Kennicott witnesses 6 and 12–15, Gaster Samaritan Add 1 and trilingual MS 814, and Gaster Hebrew MS 86 and 694.
  • New featureAdded visual highlight correction and review, polygon-point deletion, searchable manuscript selection, computational manuscript details, linked feature analysis, and multi-passage indexing.
  • UI improvementShowed the active verse above results and clarified More info and image-hosting labels.
v147–v162
  • ManuscriptsAdded Kennicott witnesses 3, 9 and 11.
  • New featureAdded a synoptic highlight toggle, pinch-to-zoom scans, refined gesture zoom, and reviewed polygon location suggestions.
  • Bug fixFixed Rylands MS 2 and Sinaiticus highlights and compressed page controls.
v117–v146
  • ManuscriptsAdded Huntington 12, 396, 261 and 591; Bodley Or. 46, 62, 699, 23 and 621; Marshall Or. 3; Laud Or. 174; Rylands Samaritan MS 2 and 4; Canonici Or. 46 and 69; and Gaster Samaritan MS 1133.
  • New featureAdded all-manuscript comparisons, exact Hebrew word search with verse navigation, gap-aware page navigation, and coloured verse controls.
  • UI improvementCompleted Hebrew localization and defaulted first-time Israeli visitors to Hebrew.
v59–v116
  • ManuscriptsAdded and fully mapped Kennicott 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8; Bodley Or. 803 and 804; and Bodley Or. 6.
  • New featureAdded the source-aware page-text drawer, feedback and review workflows, analytics, secure corpus delivery and release verification, linked image-rights information, and full-source releases.
  • UI improvementCompleted Hebrew interface copy, improved manuscript discovery and the picker, and made Read Text more prominent.
  • Bug fixRepaired numerous Kennicott and Sinaiticus highlight, layout and image-tile problems.
v42–v58
  • ManuscriptsAdded Lucianic Rahlfs 82, a fully indexed Samaritan witness, Bodleian Kennicott 3, and Kennicott 7 fragments.
  • New featureAdded grouped manuscript selection, direct image comparison, adaptive high-resolution zoom, shareable comparison links, Keter Aram Tsova typography, and Masoretic app icons.
  • Bug fixFixed Leningrad Genesis 24:1 and Kennicott 3 page mappings.
v1–v41
  • ManuscriptsLaunched with the Leningrad and Aleppo codices, added Sinaiticus and Alexandrinus, and then added Codex Sassoon.
  • New featureBuilt the core verse-to-page finder, HTR line locations, verse highlighting, scan loading, zoom, manuscript comparison, reference-specific page titles, and creator credit.
  • UI improvementSimplified the first result view and tightened the mobile layout and highlight controls.
  • Bug fixCorrected Alexandrinus column and verse boundaries and Aleppo and Sassoon reading-order highlights.
Manuscript page collections

Carpet pages

Full-page fields of geometric, interlaced, micrographic, or architectural ornament. This collection includes the sixteen carpet pages of the Leningrad Codex, the three preliminary carpet pages of Kennicott 2, the seven carpet pages of Kennicott 1, the three preliminary carpet pages of British Library Or. 2540, all twenty-three opening and closing carpet pages of Utopia cod. 6, the complete twelve-page painted-arcade series of the Harley Catalan Bible, and the complete four-page opening arcade series of British Library Add MS 15250.

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Curated text collection

Deuterocanonical and related texts

Some biblical manuscripts—including witnesses in the Masoretic tradition—preserve works outside the Jewish canon beside Scripture or its Aramaic Targum. This guide explains the texts, manuscripts, and scholarship, and updates automatically as occurrences are added.

3 texts · 9 occurrences · 6 manuscripts
fol. 473v, Leningrad CodexLeningrad Codexfol. 473vFolio 473v: Masoretic lists and biblical verses are arranged as a dense diamond lattice within a large circle.No indexed biblical textfol. 474r, Leningrad CodexLeningrad Codexfol. 474rFolio 474r: Masoretic notes, biblical verses, and a dedicatory colophon form a circular design around a six-pointed star; the centre names Samuel ben Jacob.No indexed biblical textfol. 474v, Leningrad CodexLeningrad Codexfol. 474vFolio 474v: Masoretic notes form a stepped diamond lattice framed by geometric corner fields.No indexed biblical textfol. 475r, Leningrad CodexLeningrad Codexfol. 475rFolio 475r: Masoretic notes and biblical verses form a regular diamond-and-rosette lattice.No indexed biblical textfol. 475v, Leningrad CodexLeningrad Codexfol. 475vFolio 475v: Masoretic notes, biblical verses, and colophon text are woven through an architectural design of arches and triangular finials.No indexed biblical textfol. 476r, Leningrad CodexLeningrad Codexfol. 476rFolio 476r: Masoretic notes form a dense composition of interlocking triangles and nested geometric bands.No indexed biblical textfol. 476v, Leningrad CodexLeningrad Codexfol. 476vFolio 476v: biblical verses are arranged within an arched, symmetrical composition.No indexed biblical textfol. 477r, Leningrad CodexLeningrad Codexfol. 477rFolio 477r: Masoretic notes, biblical verses, and colophon text form a tall interlaced composition with pointed and circular motifs.No indexed biblical textfol. 477v, Leningrad CodexLeningrad Codexfol. 477vFolio 477v: Masoretic notes radiate through a large rosette design.No indexed biblical textfol. 478r, Leningrad CodexLeningrad Codexfol. 478rFolio 478r: biblical verses form an architectural design with a central inscription, arch, and flanking panels.No indexed biblical textfol. 478v, Leningrad CodexLeningrad Codexfol. 478vFolio 478v: biblical verses and colophon text are set in an ornate rectangular panel with scrolling cartouches.No indexed biblical textfol. 479r, Leningrad CodexLeningrad Codexfol. 479rFolio 479r: biblical verses and colophon text fill an eight-pointed star framed by circular medallions.No indexed biblical textfol. 488v, Leningrad CodexLeningrad Codexfol. 488vFolio 488v: Masoretic notes form a rectangular interlace of stars, lozenges, and pointed finials.No indexed biblical textfol. 489r, Leningrad CodexLeningrad Codexfol. 489rFolio 489r: Masoretic notes form a repeating lattice of octagonal and lozenge-shaped compartments.No indexed biblical textfol. 489v, Leningrad CodexLeningrad Codexfol. 489vFolio 489v: Masoretic notes, biblical verses, and colophon text are arranged in a circular eight-part knot.No indexed biblical textfol. 490r, Leningrad CodexLeningrad Codexfol. 490rFolio 490r: Masoretic notes and biblical verses form a circular interlace within a rectangular frame.No indexed biblical text14r, Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 2Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 214rFolio 14r: a golden geometric interlace is enclosed by a red-and-gold border carrying Psalm 19:8–9.No indexed biblical text14v, Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 2Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 214vFolio 14v: a red, gold, and green interlace panel is framed by a large Hebrew inscription.No indexed biblical text15r, Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 2Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 215rFolio 15r: a dense golden interlace with a small central motif is enclosed by a red vegetal border.No indexed biblical textFolio IIr · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical text, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio IIr · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical textFolio IIr: one of the sixteen opening full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.No indexed biblical textFolio IIv · illuminated Masoretic carpet page, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio IIv · illuminated Masoretic carpet pageFolio IIv: one of the sixteen opening full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.Contains indexed biblical textFolio IIIr · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical text, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio IIIr · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical textFolio IIIr: one of the sixteen opening full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.No indexed biblical textFolio IIIv · illuminated Masoretic carpet page, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio IIIv · illuminated Masoretic carpet pageFolio IIIv: one of the sixteen opening full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.Contains indexed biblical textFolio IVr · illuminated Masoretic carpet page, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio IVr · illuminated Masoretic carpet pageFolio IVr: one of the sixteen opening full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.Contains indexed biblical textFolio IVv · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical text, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio IVv · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical textFolio IVv: one of the sixteen opening full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.No indexed biblical textFolio Vr · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical text, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio Vr · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical textFolio Vr: one of the sixteen opening full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.No indexed biblical textFolio Vv · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical text, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio Vv · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical textFolio Vv: one of the sixteen opening full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.No indexed biblical textFolio VIr · illuminated Masoretic carpet page, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio VIr · illuminated Masoretic carpet pageFolio VIr: one of the sixteen opening full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.Contains indexed biblical textFolio VIv · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical text, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio VIv · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical textFolio VIv: one of the sixteen opening full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.No indexed biblical textFolio VIIr · illuminated Masoretic carpet page, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio VIIr · illuminated Masoretic carpet pageFolio VIIr: one of the sixteen opening full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.Contains indexed biblical textFolio VIIv · illuminated Masoretic carpet page, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio VIIv · illuminated Masoretic carpet pageFolio VIIv: one of the sixteen opening full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.Contains indexed biblical textFolio VIIIr · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical text, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio VIIIr · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical textFolio VIIIr: one of the sixteen opening full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.No indexed biblical textFolio VIIIv · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical text, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio VIIIv · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical textFolio VIIIv: one of the sixteen opening full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.No indexed biblical textFolio IXr · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical text, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio IXr · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical textFolio IXr: one of the sixteen opening full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.No indexed biblical textFolio IXv · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical text, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio IXv · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical textFolio IXv: one of the sixteen opening full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.No indexed biblical textFolio 463v · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical text, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio 463v · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical textFolio 463v: one of the seven closing full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.No indexed biblical textFolio 464r · illuminated Masoretic carpet page, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio 464r · illuminated Masoretic carpet pageFolio 464r: one of the seven closing full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 464v · illuminated Masoretic carpet page, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio 464v · illuminated Masoretic carpet pageFolio 464v: one of the seven closing full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 465r · illuminated Masoretic carpet page, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio 465r · illuminated Masoretic carpet pageFolio 465r: one of the seven closing full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 465v · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical text, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio 465v · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical textFolio 465v: one of the seven closing full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.No indexed biblical textFolio 466r · illuminated Masoretic carpet page, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio 466r · illuminated Masoretic carpet pageFolio 466r: one of the seven closing full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 466v · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical text, Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Metropolitan Museum Hebrew Bible 2018.59 (formerly Utopia cod. 6, 1300–1350)Folio 466v · illuminated Masoretic carpet page · no indexed biblical textFolio 466v: one of the seven closing full-page Masoretic carpet designs, where minute Masoretic writing is arranged as a self-contained geometric composition.No indexed biblical textFolio 1 verso · Ben Asher / Ben Naphtali comparison table opens, Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Folio 1 verso · Ben Asher / Ben Naphtali comparison table opensFolio 1v: one of the complete series of twelve painted full-page arcades framing preliminary Masoretic material; blank ornamental fields remain unindexed, while securely matched biblical excerpts receive their own occurrences.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 2 recto, Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Folio 2 rectoFolio 2r: one of the complete series of twelve painted full-page arcades framing preliminary Masoretic material; blank ornamental fields remain unindexed, while securely matched biblical excerpts receive their own occurrences.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 2 verso, Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Folio 2 versoFolio 2v: one of the complete series of twelve painted full-page arcades framing preliminary Masoretic material; blank ornamental fields remain unindexed, while securely matched biblical excerpts receive their own occurrences.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 3 recto, Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Folio 3 rectoFolio 3r: one of the complete series of twelve painted full-page arcades framing preliminary Masoretic material; blank ornamental fields remain unindexed, while securely matched biblical excerpts receive their own occurrences.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 3 verso, Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Folio 3 versoFolio 3v: one of the complete series of twelve painted full-page arcades framing preliminary Masoretic material; blank ornamental fields remain unindexed, while securely matched biblical excerpts receive their own occurrences.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 4 recto, Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Folio 4 rectoFolio 4r: one of the complete series of twelve painted full-page arcades framing preliminary Masoretic material; blank ornamental fields remain unindexed, while securely matched biblical excerpts receive their own occurrences.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 4 verso, Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Folio 4 versoFolio 4v: one of the complete series of twelve painted full-page arcades framing preliminary Masoretic material; blank ornamental fields remain unindexed, while securely matched biblical excerpts receive their own occurrences.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 7 recto · empty painted arcade · no indexed biblical text, Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Folio 7 recto · empty painted arcade · no indexed biblical textFolio 7r: one of the complete series of twelve painted full-page arcades framing preliminary Masoretic material; blank ornamental fields remain unindexed, while securely matched biblical excerpts receive their own occurrences.No indexed biblical textFolio 8 verso · empty painted arcade · no indexed biblical text, Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Folio 8 verso · empty painted arcade · no indexed biblical textFolio 8v: one of the complete series of twelve painted full-page arcades framing preliminary Masoretic material; blank ornamental fields remain unindexed, while securely matched biblical excerpts receive their own occurrences.No indexed biblical textFolio 9 recto · Ben Asher / Ben Naphtali comparison table resumes, Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Folio 9 recto · Ben Asher / Ben Naphtali comparison table resumesFolio 9r: one of the complete series of twelve painted full-page arcades framing preliminary Masoretic material; blank ornamental fields remain unindexed, while securely matched biblical excerpts receive their own occurrences.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 9 verso, Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Folio 9 versoFolio 9v: one of the complete series of twelve painted full-page arcades framing preliminary Masoretic material; blank ornamental fields remain unindexed, while securely matched biblical excerpts receive their own occurrences.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 10 recto · final painted comparison table, Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Folio 10 recto · final painted comparison tableFolio 10r: one of the complete series of twelve painted full-page arcades framing preliminary Masoretic material; blank ornamental fields remain unindexed, while securely matched biblical excerpts receive their own occurrences.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 1 verso · Ben Asher / Ben Naphtali comparison table opens, Duke of Sussex’s Catalan Bible (British Library Add MS 15250, 1350–1374)Duke of Sussex’s Catalan Bible (British Library Add MS 15250, 1350–1374)Folio 1 verso · Ben Asher / Ben Naphtali comparison table opensFolio 1v: one of the complete four-page painted-arcade series preceding the Bible. Folios 1v–2v frame Torah-only Ben Asher/Ben Naphtali comparison tables whose 201 distinct reviewed canonical references are indexed separately; folio 3r preserves an empty ornamental field.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 2 recto, Duke of Sussex’s Catalan Bible (British Library Add MS 15250, 1350–1374)Duke of Sussex’s Catalan Bible (British Library Add MS 15250, 1350–1374)Folio 2 rectoFolio 2r: one of the complete four-page painted-arcade series preceding the Bible. Folios 1v–2v frame Torah-only Ben Asher/Ben Naphtali comparison tables whose 201 distinct reviewed canonical references are indexed separately; folio 3r preserves an empty ornamental field.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 2 verso · Ben Asher / Ben Naphtali comparison table concludes, Duke of Sussex’s Catalan Bible (British Library Add MS 15250, 1350–1374)Duke of Sussex’s Catalan Bible (British Library Add MS 15250, 1350–1374)Folio 2 verso · Ben Asher / Ben Naphtali comparison table concludesFolio 2v: one of the complete four-page painted-arcade series preceding the Bible. Folios 1v–2v frame Torah-only Ben Asher/Ben Naphtali comparison tables whose 201 distinct reviewed canonical references are indexed separately; folio 3r preserves an empty ornamental field.Contains indexed biblical textFolio 3 recto · empty painted architectural frame · no indexed biblical text, Duke of Sussex’s Catalan Bible (British Library Add MS 15250, 1350–1374)Duke of Sussex’s Catalan Bible (British Library Add MS 15250, 1350–1374)Folio 3 recto · empty painted architectural frame · no indexed biblical textFolio 3r: one of the complete four-page painted-arcade series preceding the Bible. Folios 1v–2v frame Torah-only Ben Asher/Ben Naphtali comparison tables whose 201 distinct reviewed canonical references are indexed separately; folio 3r preserves an empty ornamental field.No indexed biblical textFolio 2 recto · carpet page; no indexed biblical text, British Library Or. 2540 (Arabic-script Exodus fragments)British Library Or. 2540 (Arabic-script Exodus fragments)Folio 2 recto · carpet page; no indexed biblical textFolio 2r: the first of three preliminary carpet pages, built from dense geometric bands and framed medallions.No indexed biblical textFolio 2 verso · carpet page; no indexed biblical text, British Library Or. 2540 (Arabic-script Exodus fragments)British Library Or. 2540 (Arabic-script Exodus fragments)Folio 2 verso · carpet page; no indexed biblical textFolio 2v: the second preliminary carpet page, with a full-page geometric field and coloured interlace.No indexed biblical textFolio 3 recto · carpet page; no indexed biblical text, British Library Or. 2540 (Arabic-script Exodus fragments)British Library Or. 2540 (Arabic-script Exodus fragments)Folio 3 recto · carpet page; no indexed biblical textFolio 3r: the third preliminary carpet page faces the opening biblical text on fol. 3v.No indexed biblical textfol. 120r, Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 1Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 1fol. 120rFolio 120r: full-page interlace frame.No indexed biblical textfol. 122r, Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 1Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 1fol. 122rFolio 122r: full-page interlace with dragons in the corner spaces.No indexed biblical textfol. 122v, Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 1Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 1fol. 122vFolio 122v: a six-pointed strapwork star enclosed by an interlace circle.No indexed biblical textfol. 123r, Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 1Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 1fol. 123rFolio 123r: alternating horizontal and vertical strapwork.No indexed biblical textfol. 317v, Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 1Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 1fol. 317vFolio 317v: the first of two facing micrographic carpet pages.No indexed biblical textfol. 318r, Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 1Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 1fol. 318rFolio 318r: the second of two facing micrographic carpet pages.No indexed biblical textfol. 352v, Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 1Bodleian Library MS. Kennicott 1fol. 352vFolio 352v: a strapwork circle framed by a peacock pattern.No indexed biblical text
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